RNC lashes out at WH crackdown

5/14/12 12:31 PM EDT

The Republican National Committee blasted a White House crackdown on conference expenses as not tough enough to rein in wasteful spending.

The new spending guidelines require top-level review for conference spending over $100,000 and prohibit conferences costing over $500,000 without special permission.

“At $500,000 per conference, 'Debt King' Obama is setting such a strict spending limit that next year’s GSA conference will be forced to decide: mindreader or magician, not both," RNC spokeswoman Kirsten Kukowski said in a statement. "With wasteful policies like this it’s not hard to figure out why Obama has run the three largest deficits in history.”

The guidelines issued Friday by the White House Office of Management and Budget seek to prevent another embarassment like the GSA scandal, when the agency spent more than $800,000 on a Las Vegas conference that featured a mindreader and over-the-top parties.

Kukowski mocked the new guidelines "capping all conferences at the low, low price of $500,000 (unless they are granted 'special permission')."

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